Perhaps the strongest example yet of Betteridge's law.
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I am a senior developer working on and with LLMs. I do spend a lot more time than I expected doing prompt engineering. Not putting quotes, after laughing at it I do think this is becoming a real thing. Understanding zero shot, one shot, few shots, understanding the quirks of the different models, forcing a format by providing part of the answer, compressing context to fit a context window...
The code around it is simple: some string manipulation, some database access. Actually maybe half the code around it I made it generate by GPT-4.
I don't know if it is displacing data scientist yet, but I am pretty sure that data scientists right now spend as much time writing prompts than writing code.
I do think that my job wont exist in a year.
Honestly kinda of a meme, I don't really see it yet as a job and I'm not sure if it really is going to become one